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That one lone seditious orange tree on Picnic Point is going to give the rest of them ideas. Mark my words, before long you'll see all the trees deciding to change colors and drop their leaves. It must be stopped!

↑ 100% of lie, the card was already done and waiting to be mailed, and I already showed you the prototype.

I'm full of good cheer because I just now bought Nikon's monstrous super-wide 14-24mm 2.8 with an outer lens so ridiculously bulbous that it bulges beyond the barrel and cannot be protected nor filtered. Designed for maniacs, it is far from an all-purpose lens. It's also a real babe magnet. It is the, no, it is THE lens that completes a photographer's lens ensemble and over which professional photogs cream themselves. Canon owners use an adaptor to enable the use of this lens.

Although, now I'm torn. Ken Rockwell, whose opinion I value and whose web site has taught me much, now recommends Tokina 11-16mm 2.8 for Nikon DX DSLRs and he gives very convincing argument for it. The thing is, I'm investing for the future -- eventually when I'm good enough I'll want to switch to full format digital which all these lenses fit and that's where a lens like this really shines.

We visited Olbrich Botanical Gardens in your fair city Sunday, and it was not very Autumnal at all. But that's okay. Some interesting sculptures and fountains and stuff to see in addition to the growing things, too.

I took my eldest to college yesterday. So with my younger already at school, the nest is truly empty. I can tell because when I enter the house from the garage, there's not 8 pair of shoes and flip flops on the rug. As Darius Rucker wood croon, I'm going t miss this

After today’s speech by President Obama, the most recent Rasmussen poll shows that 35.5 percent of our nation’s schoolchildren are experiencing, on average, an improvement in academic performance approaching an astounding 17.3 percent.

This is glad news, indeed!

What is more, all this was foreseen by B. Kliban. This is a true fact which every single skeptical person can prove to his or herself, by reviewing the evidence, posted (lovingly) here.

Leave it to International Harvester to call their tractors "tracters." Ev'ryone knows Minneapolis Moline can out perform a Farmall any day...not to mention Minneapolis Molines were, for a long while, union-free made.

Kidding aside Allen, glad to read that ol' Farmall H is still pluggin' away...like its owner.

I'm conservative, but she sucks the oxygen out of my car, then makes me feel bad about not expecting it. I just lower my head like a beaten dog and slyly change the channel. Beside I'm happily unmarried, so I know she wants me dead.